Twenty Years at Court: From the Correspondence of the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Maid of Honour to Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria, 1842-1862Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916 - 404 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afterwards amused arrived BALMORAL Baron beautiful BUCKINGHAM PALACE carriage Charles Countess Countess of Ilchester Court dance daughter DEAREST MAMA DEAREST MAMA,-We dined dinner dress drive Duchess of Gloucester Duchess of Kent Duchess of Wellington Edward Stanley WINDSOR eldest Eleanor Stanley Father French Friday gentlemen George gown Grand Duke Grey half-past hear heard hour Household King Lady Caroline Lady Mary Stanley last night Leiningen letter London looked Lord lovely lunch Maid of Honour Marquis Mary Stanley WINDSOR Miss Monday morning Mother never nice Palmerston PAPA PAPA,-We party play pony pretty Prince Alfred Prince Consort Prince of Wales Princess Alice Princess Royal Queen and Prince Queen Victoria round Saturday seems sent Stanley OSBORNE Stanley WINDSOR CASTLE stay suppose talking thing third Earl thought Thursday to-day to-morrow told Tuesday Viscount waiting walked Wednesday
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Seite 72 - To eat Westphalia ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what...
Seite 72 - ... over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse, a hundred times) with a red mark...
Seite 69 - ... for the day of the week, and a watch for the hour of the day, you may inform yourself fully, without any other intelligence but your memory, of every transaction within the verge of the Court. Walking, chaises, leve'es, and audiences fill the morning. At night the King plays at commerce and backgammon, and the Queen at quadrille, where poor Lady Charlotte runs her usual nightly gauntlet, the Queen pulling her hood, and the Princess Royal rapping her knuckles.
Seite 72 - I can easily believe no lone house in Wales, with a mountain and a rookery, is more contemplative than this court ; and, as a proof of it, I need only tell you, Mrs.
Seite 72 - Westphalia ham in a morning; ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks ; come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and, what is worse a hundred times, with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat ; all this may qualify them to make excellent wives for fox-hunters, and bear abundance of ruddy-complexioned children.
Seite 73 - Lepell) walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the king, who gave audience to the vicechamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.
Seite 71 - come into the Presence Chamber before eleven of the clock and to go to prayers, and after prayers to attend until the Queen be set at dinner...
Seite 15 - The conclusion of the paper was, " Your Majesty had better express your hope that none of Your Majesty's Household, except those who are engaged in Politics, may be removed.
Seite 110 - The boys' school is quite remarkable, and the master seems a quick, intelligent man, likely to teach well and get them on. I heard an examination on part of Exodus, and I am sure I could not have answered half the questions that they all had at their fingers' ends. The Queen and court are very much afraid of its becoming a show school, and therefore stop all visitors, except those from the Castle, as much as possible, in which they are right, for everybody is rather inclined, naturally, to come and...
Seite 145 - You see, properly speaking, it is not our fault; for the Lord Steward lays the fire only, and the Lord Chamberlain lights it.